Unless you just got back from another planet, the story has been plastered around everywhere.

But for the first time the guy who runs the Department of Environment Quality has revealed the DEQ’s role in all this.

First of all Dan Wyant wants you to know it’s not the state’s fault. Yet when asked if his staff made any mistakes, he could only offer, “I don’t think the department made a mistake. Those who operate the facility had a problem.”

Oh yeah, they did.

But the DEQ did participate in a “decision” that cleared the way for the splash pad to be used. Mr. Wyant recalls, “I didn’t try to let them do this without a license” while denying any political pressure to speed up the process.

The screw-up came when somebody missed the fact that the water line feeding into the splash pad had some how been hooked up to a raw sewage line, too.

“Should you have caught that?” the director was quizzed.

“I don’t know. It’s possible. I just don’t know.”

Perhaps he’d should find that out in order to make sure he can pay off on his pledge that this won’t happen again.

The parents who saw “mud” on their kids worried about illness - while the state and locals wipe the egg off their mugs.

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